NYMPH ALID/E DIADEM A. 



DIADEMA CIIARONDA. 2. 3. 



Upperside. Male, dark brown with numerous white and yellow spots; both 

 wings from the base to the middle violet-blue. Anterior wing with a line of white 

 from the base outwards : a bilobed spot within the cell and two large spots below it 

 white : a transverse band of five spots beyond the middle, two spots near the apex, 

 and a submarginal band of nine small spots, all pale yellow. Posterior wing with an 

 indistinct spot at the base, two small spots and a, large bifid white spot before the 

 middle, followed by a curved transverse band of six pale yellow spots, by three minute 

 spots towards the inner margin, by a submarginal band of six spots, and by two or 

 three small marginal spots near the apex, all pale yellow ; a semicircular carmine spot 

 at the anal angle. 



Underside very pale green; anterior wing from the base to beyond the middle 

 dark brown (black within the cell), with the spots as above, except that there is a 

 white spot near the base, and three white spots between the bilobed spot in the cell 

 and the transverse band : from the said band to the apex pale green marked by some 

 ill-defined black spots : the outer margin with pale green lunular spots (one spot 

 bifid) ; posterior wing pale green, with the spots of the upperside very indistinct. 



Female differs little from the male : it is larger, is on the upperside without the 

 blue, has the spots more deeply tinted with yellow, and is without the anal carmine 

 spot : on the underside it is more deeply tinted with yellow. 



Expan. $ -li, $ 5x5 m - Hab. Japan. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



This remarkable species was brought from Japan by Mr. Fortune, it bears considerable resemblance 

 (especially the female) to Adolias Dirtea, but its very robust antenna' and great length of body deter- 

 mine its proximity to Diadema. and more especially to D. Assimilis, which it resembles also in having 

 the anal carmine spot ; in the position of the branches from the subcostal nervure it agrees with 

 D. Natna of Doublcday, the only species in the first division of the subsection Hestina of Westwood, 

 which has " the second branch of the subcostal vein arising close to the origin of the upper disco- 

 cellular vein ; " the other species D. Assimilis, Persimilis, and Consimilis, together with D. Diagoras 

 of the plate, have the second branch arising considerably beyond the disco - cellular nervules — 

 D. Charonda has the cell of both wings open. D. Nyctelius Doubleday of Westwood 's second division 

 of Hestina and D. Isa of Moore (Euripus Haliartus of Felder) must go with the genus Euripus. 



